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Submitted on
Aug 06, 2024
08:18 AM
Submitted by
Dave_Meaker1
on
Aug 06, 2024
08:18 AM

Security, sustainability, traceability and file management headaches would be significantly reduced if a file existed in one place, under a single corporate entity, with a single set of permissions and shared across SAAS integrations. It would be awesome if a file in Box could be published into an Airtable attachment field in an airtable record without copying it into the Airtable tenant and consuming storage. If a Box link were dragged into an Airtable attachment field and dropped, could Airtable interrogate the file permissions in Box to see if it is allowed? If so, present the thumbnail provided by Box as a preview. Click on the link, and it provides the Box preview as it does today and download capability. If the user's Box login could authenticate download, that would be amazing. Allowing the API to establish the link would be essential. Sustainability +++ Security +++ Ease of use +++
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My organization has developed an extension using the block APIs to perform repetitive tasks and run analytics on our bases. This has been working great, but the issue is that our workflow involves creating one base per project. With the current block APIs, this requires the developers in our organization to go into each new base, start the extension creation process to retrieve the blockId, then run some command to add the new remote, and finally deploy the extension to the new base. As we expand our usage of Airtable and create new bases, this is quickly becoming unmanageable, as each base requires the developers to run these commands. My idea is to allow extensions to be released at the organization level. Then, when a user creates a new base, they can go over to add an extension, see all the extensions owned by their organization, and add the extension to the new base they have created.
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What is the proposed idea/solution? Provide access to API endpoints that users can call to fetch data about their automations in a base. Just adding some GET endpoints for read-only access would be a massive help. How does is solve the user problems? Currently users need to go into each base, then into the automations & navigate everything manually. Access to this data through an API would allow organizations an overview of which automations they have active/inactive across their organization. It would be even more helpful if the payload provided detailed information such as the settings of each step in the automation, error logs, and data about the created by/timestamp, as well as last updated by / timestamp. How was this validated? By dealing with the headache of not having it. We manually update all of our script steps / automations in our repository, very tedious. Automations have broken many times but silly things like a field name that is used in a script step getting removed or renamed. Debugging through Airtables error log is very slow and a terrible UX. Who is the target audience? Admins & developers, any company using multiple base in Airtable
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Status:
New Ideas
Submitted on
May 20, 2024
01:04 AM
Submitted by
sallierie
on
May 20, 2024
01:04 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? Please make it possible to sync the google drive in an automation or from an API call as an extra option beside just the 5 minute interval or manual click in the airtable><Google Drive table that is currently available. How does is solve the user problems? When you are designing workflows in an airtable interface and the flow is touching on a document that is created and then stored in a google drive, your workflow is automatically interupted now until the sync is completed between airtable and Google drive before you can work with the data from the newly created document. The only way to bypass this lagg currently is by manually going into the table and press the "sync now" button. However, in many use cases (including mine), you dont want the customer to go into the data part of airtable. How was this validated? I have been looking online and the only somewhat relevant info is on how to keep the table "alive" by setting up an automation on an interval. But that doesnt solve the problem as it still requires you to wait a few minutes for the sync to automatically occur. Who is the target audience? Workflow designers who have customers who only get access to interfaces or external access (like softr, make etc.)
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"When I use the selection field to group the list, and I want to change various records to a newly created group/selection, I have to go into each record and change each selection/group."
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Status:
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Submitted on
Jul 09, 2023
11:00 AM
Submitted by
ultrabstrong1
on
Jul 09, 2023
11:00 AM

There should be two attachment types - private and public. Public attachments are accessible from non-expiring URLs and private attachments are accessible through the following configurable options PAT with correct permissions (AKA downloadable via stream...not just a link) Expiring URLs that optionally require login to view and have configurable expiration times Online from a properly permissioned user account
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Status:
New Ideas
Submitted on
May 26, 2023
11:59 AM
Submitted by
dk82734
on
May 26, 2023
11:59 AM

Hi Airtable Team, First off, I'm really enjoying the new Personal Access Tokens feature -- it makes it *much* easier to cross-check which external Make.com scenario is responsible for record/field level changes via the Record History view. Great job! Secondly, when juggling over 150+ Make.com scenarios that touch Airtable, it becomes non-trivial to manually create a new, unique Personal Access Token for each separate Make.com scenario. Trust me, I *want* to do this because the audit logs are much *cleaner*, but I wish it was less *time consuming*. Therefore, I'm looking for Airtable to provide an API that allows enterprise *administrators* to create new personal access tokens *at scale*. That would solve a ton of friction for our engineering teams on their journey to migrate to Personal Access Tokens. Happy to spell out this use-case further; thanks for your time.
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Submitted on
Oct 21, 2022
03:49 PM
Submitted by
Kevin_Gutowski
on
Oct 21, 2022
03:49 PM

Would be neat to be able to easily input a url for an API and have the response automatically generate an Airtable table. Then I want to manually (or ideally semi automatically) link rows in my other tables to this API data so I can then do other formulas and rollups. Whenever data changes in the API endpoint, then it automatically updates my dependent columns.
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Submitted on
Dec 09, 2021
03:45 AM
Submitted by
Alexey_Gusev
on
Dec 09, 2021
03:45 AM

Hi, I think it’s a good idea to update selectRecordsAsync() examples in API reference, in Table and View topics, with passing “options.fields”. Usually I’m trying to avoid deprecated usage (without fields), but sometimes forget correct options format. Since API reference contains deprecated example, I often needs additional efforts (to look into some earlier written code).
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Submitted on
Nov 01, 2021
11:34 AM
Submitted by
TroyTessalone
on
Nov 01, 2021
11:34 AM

Airtable Standard API Add endpoint to delete the Trash with options to filter what items to delete. Settings Table View Field Automation Record Example Configure a cron job to delete individual records from a specific Table in the Trash.
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